Dimension W ep 2 [ I Love Loser Club ]

Dimension W starts this week with the person I assume will always be my favorite character forever and that by the end of the series he will make me cry or die. Or both. This week we’re introduced to the character ‘Loser’ who commits crimes or announces things he’s targeting: but the catch is he always ‘loses’. He never seems to take what he came for or get the thing he was after, but he always escapes. Right away you can see he has a huge fanbase and after the episode, I can guarantee you will probably be one of them. Kyouma thinks it’s very clear Loser has a sophisticated illegal communication network, meaning a lot of illegal coils to collect and his required presence.

Other than Loser this episode provides a very interesting insight to what ‘coils’ actually are. They aren’t so much electricity as essentially gateways that channel power through them – unlimited power that exists only in Dimension W. I honestly did not really comprehend what that meant until the end of the episode, but that’s getting a little ahead of everything. Suffice it to say: the reason Collectors exist is because illegal coils are basically illegal channels of this unlimited power, something that is potentially well, bad.

Most of the episode focuses on Kyouma versus Loser, but only in theory. While Kyouma is interested in Loser and his network of illegal coils he does not at all seem interested in legitimately killing him. Meanwhile Loser is not at all what his name portrays: he is a mysterious antagonistic figure who makes it very clear that the people who deal in coils have taken a lot from him. You might find this oddly similar to the story behind Mira’s father, but some very important people killed Loser’s wife and destroyed his life. Loser, realizing the hatred that Kyouma has for coils and a very interesting backstory he merely hints at, reveals to Kyouma a disfigured face underneath the mask. For Loser, his targets have a hidden meaning, and Kyouma assesses he probably hasn’t been losing at all.

This is where the episode takes a very interesting turn. Loser is a figure we can immediately take interest in: a scarred vigilante searching for some kind of evidence behind the coils. Kyouma has a history that relates to specializing in fighting against coil technology. When Kyouma and Loser reach where the art piece Loser is targeting is, they’re met with the owner of the building who orders his robots to kill Kyouma. Kyouma of course is happy to fight them because they are powered with illegal coils- and with almost no effort dispatches them. But here is where this episode becomes something completely different, here is where we see how things could explode the way the doctor did in episode 1 or the way that this other dimension might be absolutely terrible.

I felt like when they described the coils before they were just a source of power. The story presents itself in that manner: this is just a power source and the organization Tesla wants people to see it that way. Well let me tell you: that is absolutely 100% not true. Coils might just be evil. I might just pay 30 dollars a gallon for gas, because the illegal coils show you just what happens when you tamper with them. I’m not saying illegal coils unleash the depths of hell upon you and make you into a terrifying abomination upon mankind that still feels and acknowledges its own separate existence, but, well. . .

Let’s just say coils are a horrifically interesting being. Loser gets away with whatever he came for, but not what the public thinks  he came for, and returns to find his son hanging out with Mira. Mira found their illegal communication coils, but she also pleads with Loser to know who it is that actually makes them. Mira’s true goal is to follow the illegal coils to the answer she thinks her father left her, but Loser explains even the Underground finds revealing this information to be taboo.

Loser is easily a good reason to watch the show, but Kyouma grows more and more interesting. While Mira definitely needs time to establish what she’s doing and understanding her position, and figuring out what makes her so unique has yet to be revealed, Kyouma does not ever fail to intrigue. I’m eagerly awaiting learning more about his backstory and hoping the more we learn about the coils, the better this show will get.

THE COLLAPSE THOUGH HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS ONLY A F=IN CLASS C?!

Oki